Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator is AMAZING!

[CrisAnderson27]

I plan on ordering a replacement fan for my noisy incubator that I dropped. I do think the noise and vibration is probably from an unlevel fan. As I mentioned before, they do still work fine when the hum is louder, lol. I'm sure this could happen in a rough shipment too since you know you didn't drop yours.

As far as the difference between Ver#2 & Ver#3 the only different is the external port and the red plug. There is a sticker that shows A & B on version 2 and it's stamped in the plastic on version 3. I did ask the manufacturer on that and it was the only change. I haven't talked to the manufacturer on the differences with the newest 1.0NU but visually there is a huge difference. The dome top and when you flip it over it looks completely different on the interior of the top as well. Do I think you need to switch them? Personally I don't think you would need to. I'm on my second year and TONS of hatches in these NR360s, Ver#2 & #3 have had the most hatches in them and they're still running great and hatch rates are still very good.

I tried to include all of my Nurture Right hatches, good and bad. Most of my notes show that the lesser hatch rates are usually due to something other than the incubators though.
I knew my obsessive note taking and noting even which version I was using would eventually benefit someone!



3/1/19: 80% (started with 22, 8 infertile, 3 quitters, 11 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right incubator

3/31/19: 100% (started with 22, 4 infertile, No quitters, 18 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right incubator

4/23-4/25/19: 82% (started with 44, 11 infertile, 6 quitters, 27 live chicks) Version 2 & 3 Nurture Right incubators

5/14/19: 100% (started with 11, No infertile, No quitters, 11 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right incubator (started eggs in Little Giant)

5/16/19: 70% (started with 20, No infertile, 6 quitters (1 was a late loss), 14 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right incubator

6/21/19-6/22/19: 64% (started with 33, 11 infertile, 8 quitters (2 were late losses), 14 live chicks) Version 2 & 3 Nurture Right 360 incubators (4 Mottled Orpington chicks died days after hatching, suspect genetic defect in breeding flock)

7/5/19: 100% (started with 4, 2 infertile, No quitters, 2 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right (finished last few days for lockdown and hatch in Little Giant)

Quail hatch 7/13/19: 67% (started with 5, 2 infertile, 1 quitter, 2 live quail chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right (lockdown in Little Giant for hatch)

7/16/19: 59% (started with 28, 1 infertile, 11 quitters, 16 live chicks) Version 2 & 3 Nurture Right 360 incubators

8/31/19: 88% SHIPPED EGGS (started with 15, 7 infertile, 1 quitter, 7 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right

2/18/20: 90% (started with 10, No infertile, 1 quitter, 9 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right incubator
- The 1 quitter was late embryo death, on hatch day, I believe due to large vaulted skull

2/19/20: 100% (started with 12, 2 infertile, No quitters, 10 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right incubator

3/12/20: 91% (started with 12, 1 infertile, 1 quitter, 10 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right incubator
- Repaired 1 cracked egg with wax before setting. Also set 2 oblong eggs, 1 sticky egg (egg white leakage?), 2 porous eggs, and 1 calcium build up egg (calcium build up was infertile, cracked egg quit around day 15-16 possibly due to the wax affecting gas exchange or from bacteria.)

3/23/20: 94% (started with 23, 5 infertile, 1 quitter, 17 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right incubator
- 1 chick looked like the Iowa Blue rooster fertilized, mixed chick

4/4/20: 64% (started with 24, 10 infertile, 5 quitters, 9 live chicks) Version 2 Nurture Right, lockdown in IncuView
- 3 of the quitter Marans were late quitters, malpositioned & severely deformed, were not colored like Marans. I suspect a different rooster fertilized.

4/10/20: 60% (started with 18, 8 infertile, 4 quitters, 6 live chicks) NR360 V2 & IncuView

4/12/20: 92% (started with 27, 1 infertile, 2 quitters, 24 live chicks) NR360 V4 & V3

That's really awesome! I wrote out a spreadsheet to track my hatches, so I could try to make a bit more sense of it over time. My flock currently consists of twenty 7.5wk old Hoover Hatchery Barred Rock hens (I literally got them straight run lol, what are the chances?). I'd love to put another (at least) ten Ameraucana and five Ayam Cemani in there with them! From there any hatching I did would be to see what the crosses looked like. Since I currently have no roosters...assuming I hatched one or more of these eggs...it'd be pretty easy to guess the crosses once hatched. Ameraucana, or Ayam Cemani would be the roo...with egg color determining the hen breed (brown for Barred Rock, blue for Ameraucana, white for Ayam Cemani).

The only real reason for switching, if I do...is that I don't really plan on buying any more incubators...so I figure I should get the best product for my money, assuming it's actually any better.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

That's really awesome! I wrote out a spreadsheet to track my hatches, so I could try to make a bit more sense of it over time. My flock currently consists of twenty 7.5wk old Hoover Hatchery Barred Rock hens (I literally got them straight run lol, what are the chances?). I'd love to put another (at least) ten Ameraucana and five Ayam Cemani in there with them! From there any hatching I did would be to see what the crosses looked like. Since I currently have no roosters...assuming I hatched one or more of these eggs...it'd be pretty easy to guess the crosses once hatched. Ameraucana, or Ayam Cemani would be the roo...with egg color determining the hen breed (brown for Barred Rock, blue for Ameraucana, white for Ayam Cemani).

The only real reason for switching, if I do...is that I don't really plan on buying any more incubators...so I figure I should get the best product for my money, assuming it's actually any better.

lol, Now that's lucky! I hear of people getting roosters even when they buy from the pullet bins!

I can't help as far as whether the 1.0NU is better than the #2 or #3 because it's the only one I don't have any first hand experience with. All I can tell you is that I love my #2, #3, & #4 equally.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Could be the bators temp sensor is located higher?
Move your app sensor to top of eggs?

If that's the case, the eggs aren't seeing full temperature, correct? The top of the sensor is around 1/3 the height of the eggs. If there's 2°F difference between the top of eggs, and 2/3 of the way down...that's probably not good anyway. The NR360 sensor is about half an inch down from the fan height, from what I can tell.

Temp per the app is currently sitting at 96.6°F. The incubator display never budges from 99.5°F. Ever. At all. The app updates VERY slowly, but it still shows a variance...usually between 96°F and 98°F...but it's been as high as 98.8°F. It's read lower than every incubator it's been put in (three so far), but it matches my calibrated thermocouple (which is dead on at 32°F and 209.°F...freezing, and boiling point at my altitude).

Bleh lol, I'll just let it run I guess. I've read eggs can develop at 98°F...albeit slowly. I don't think they'll hatch out at 96ish though.

 

[LittleRaptorFarm]

I purchased this incubator about a month ago my first time hatching chicks went amazing. Set 16 one was not fertilize and 1 didn't hatch but I did a staggered hatch. And I think if I had given it another day or two it might have hatched as well but I had already sold all the other chicks and did not want one lonely chick so I removed before it had an internally pip. Anyways this go round I have set 22 eggs I am on day 6 in a few days i will know how many are fertilized. I hope my second round goes as well as my first this time I am planning on keeping a few myself so very excited for may 5th to get here. Lol. But so far I love this incubator cleanup was easy and resetting the machine was just as easy for my second hatch. My husband has given me hatching rules as I keep my babies in the house until 6 weeks so I can't start a new set in the incubator until all babies are out the house. That is the reason I sold all my first babies lol.

 

[Faraday40]

I put some shelf liner under the turner of my NR360 incubator. It makes the eggs turn smoothly & silently. (Some of the quail eggs were flipping bottom over top instead of rolling sideways. The liner stopped this issue.)

However, after about a week, I'm noticing some rubbing. (shiny spots) Not sure if this is good. It could be the bloom being rubbed off or something from the liner being slowly applied.

Opinions?

I'm debating if I should remove the liner or just keep going. The eggs are from my own flocks (lav orps and quail) so no money was invested. However, I do have a wait list of people wanting chicks and would prefer to have a good hatch in 2 weeks.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I put some shelf liner under the turner of my NR360 incubator. It makes the eggs turn smoothly & silently. (Some of the quail eggs were flipping bottom over top instead of rolling sideways. The liner stopped this issue.)

However, after about a week, I'm noticing some rubbing. (shiny spots) Not sure if this is good. It could be the bloom being rubbed off or something from the liner being slowly applied.

Opinions?

I'm debating if I should remove the liner or just keep going. The eggs are from my own flocks (lav orps and quail) so no money was invested. However, I do have a wait list of people wanting chicks and would prefer to have a good hatch in 2 weeks.

Hmm, I'm unsure because I've never done this myself. I only use the liner for lockdown. Could you cut the liner so it's only covering the inner circle where the quail eggs are?

 

[CrisAnderson27]

I put some shelf liner under the turner of my NR360 incubator. It makes the eggs turn smoothly & silently. (Some of the quail eggs were flipping bottom over top instead of rolling sideways. The liner stopped this issue.)

However, after about a week, I'm noticing some rubbing. (shiny spots) Not sure if this is good. It could be the bloom being rubbed off or something from the liner being slowly applied.

Opinions?

I'm debating if I should remove the liner or just keep going. The eggs are from my own flocks (lav orps and quail) so no money was invested. However, I do have a wait list of people wanting chicks and would prefer to have a good hatch in 2 weeks.

I've used this kind of liner for dozens of things. It's literally the weight of the eggs compressing those areas...along with the oils (bloom) on the eggs transferring.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Well guys...the saga continues.

My local (ish...they're 30 miles from my house...but then, so is groceries lol) TSC called and said they got two Harris incubators in. I verified that one of them was the 1.0NU (only one btw, the other was a version 2)...and headed out to grab it. I get it home, and open the box...to find cords scattered everywhere and tied haphazardly (only one was tied, the other was just tossed in and the wire tie loose), fingerprints all over the unit, and the top on sideways to the bottom. I took a video (for proof if they require it), then proceeded to set it up. Once I got it on the shelf, I noticed that the OUTSIDE of the globe was heavily scratched towards the back.

Another funny thing is, it's got the old style B tray plug...not the new molded one with a B on it. Even more humorous, is my original version 2, had the new style molded plug.

That's three incubators in a 72hr period, two of which were very obvious returns. I'm really not super confident in this company, though all of your success (nearly everyone in the post) still has my hopes high as far as how they work.

I tried calling, got a voicemail directing me to leave a message. I'm going to scroll back for a valid email and try that way. I want a new top, and I want to know why they feel it's ok to resell used units to their retailers, who then forward them to their customers at full price.

On a more positive note! I have my GoVee in the new unit, heating up. I'm curious if it'll read a similar amount low, or if it'll be a different reading altogether. Soooo at least we'll all maybe learn something from my near $500 (with fuel lol) experiment.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Here's that video. You can see the top installed backwards, and if you look closely (since you're looking at the back of the unit) you can see the scratching on the globe.

I also just went to check the temperature...since the GoVee is reading higher than the other unit...and yep, it's set to 100°F already, not 99.5°F.

It's most definitely a used unit.

 

[Faraday40]

Here's that video. You can see the top installed backwards, and if you look closely (since you're looking at the back of the unit) you can see the scratching on the globe.

I also just went to check the temperature...since the GoVee is reading higher than the other unit...and yep, it's set to 100°F already, not 99.5°F.

It's most definitely a used unit.

I had to look up what GoVee was. Glad I did. Pretty cool idea. Are you happy with it? (the GoVee thermometer)

I have a Brinsea spot check which is accurate but I always have trouble every year when I must put in the battery. (The plate closing the battery up is fussy. Screws wear out plastic and it doesn't work unless tightly sealed.) This is my 2nd one because my 1st one had the same problem and I couldn't get it to work after 4-5 years.